Copyhold

House. Dating from the 15th or early 16th century, this building was originally a 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan house, converted from an open-hall house. It is a single storey with attics. The structure is timber-framed and weather-boarded, with plastered gables featuring some 18th or 19th century herringbone pargeting. The roof is covered in Roman pantiles and is half-hipped, with internal and end chimneys constructed of red brick. Windows are 19th century casements, some with small panes. The entrance is a boarded 19th century door with a glazed panel, and it is protected by a 20th century cantilevered canopy.

The original open hall was built with two equal bays and a central cambered and arch-braced tie-beam. The upper bay shows evidence of shuttered windows at the front and back. The roof has coupled rafters and widely-spaced studwork. The attic rooms at either end have heavy lodged floor joists, and the staircase at the right-hand end is likely original, although modified in the 17th century. A large fireplace was inserted in the 16th century to heat the hall, backing onto the cross-passage. In the 17th century, an upper floor was inserted into the hall. The partition wall of the service end has been removed. The property was subdivided into cottages in the 19th century.